Fine Art Reviews: Accepting Applications Now For Graduating StudentsApplication Deadline: Friday, Feb. 12th by 12:00 PMOur third annual Fine Art Reviews will bring 25 representatives from the art world to MICA to discuss student work in one-on-one conversations. This event will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share your work with professionals and to create contacts that will help jump-start your career after graduation. The Fine Art Reviews will be held on Friday, March 25, 2016.All graduating students from all programs are eligible to participate. Please be advised that this event is not a replacement for the Internship + Career Fair on March 4th. If you wish to find internships and jobs, please attend the Fair; if you wish to create contacts and get feedback on your presentation and work, please come to the Fine Art Reviews! Visit micafineartreviews.weebly.com for further details and to apply!

Research Remix and Tim Phelps: Nature MandalasSaturday, 2.13.16, 4:00 - 7:00 PMMatin Art Center, Jones 101, JHU Homewood campusAt the West side of Charles and 33rd St.Join JHMI faculty Tim Phelps for a short talk about his mandala artwork and his new two-volume book series: “Nature Mandalas: Life Circles of Biodiversity and Conservancy.” Then participate in a hands-on workshop and make your own mandala. Participants may bring their own materials to collage. Turn old textbooks, assignments, or papers into original artwork! Free and open to the public. Materials also provided. See press release for more information or visit the Facebook event page.

Graduate Student Employment Position: MICA Graduate Career AdviserApplication Deadline: Sunday, 2.14.16Visit the MICA Network for information on the position.Position begins August 20, 2016.GCA's hold their position for one academic year. Students are compensated with a $500 stipend per semester. For more information please contact the Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Career Development at 410-225-2420 or feel free to contact our current staff for further questions. Submit a resume & cover letter to careerdevelopment@mica.edu no later than February 14, 2016.

WORKSHOPS

Grad Lab: Sound for VideoWhen: Thursday, 2.11.16, 7:30 - 10:30 PM (TONIGHT)Where: Grad Lab, L504, Lazarus CenterInstructor: Patrick HuntThis workshop will introduce students to the wide variety of microphones, accessories and recording devices available for field recording through the Grad Lab Checkout. Additionally, this workshop will cover some basic recording techniques, concepts and benchmarks to use when recording sound for video.

Grad Lab: Projection MappingWhen: Thursday, 2.18.16, 7:30 - 10:30 PMWhere: Grad Lab, L504, Lazarus CenterInstructor: James RouvelleEver wonder how to get more than one video playing back over the same projector? How about syncing multiple projectors together? Or masking a projection so that images are only cast into certain surfaces within the projectors throw. Well you are in luck! This workshop will introduce you to the basics of a projection mapping software called Mad Mapper.

Exhibition Displays WorkshopWhen: Thursday, 2.25.16, 6:00 - 9:00 PMWhere: FLIV Woodshop, Lazarus Center, Ground FloorInstructor: Ann WalshSPACE IS LIMITED. Please sign up now for this workshop. Click here to sign up!This workshop will teach you the best way to build a pedestal and a box shelf to display your work. I can also cover topics such as “what in the world do I do with the projector and the cords?” or any other questions you might have.

VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

Sunday, 2.14.16Invasive: Amassing Southern LGBTQ StoriesHands-on Fiber Project with Queer Threads Artist and Aaron McIntoshSponsored by the MICA Fiber Department with support from the Center for Craft Creativity and Design

Invasive is an art project, started by Queer Threads artist and MICA Fiber Department faculty member Aaron McIntosh, which seeks to document the lives of and raise visibility for the Southern LGBTQ community using the invasive kudzu vine as a charged symbol. The project will be traveling around the South for two years collecting stories of queer communities through hands-on workshops and by visits to special archives. LGBTQ and allies alike across MICA and Baltimore are welcome to add their stories and messages of support to cloth kudzu leaves that will be quilted together. The resulting collaborative textile will serve as a symbol for strength and tenacity in the face of homophobic legislation and regional stereotypes that seek to deny queer histories in Southern culture.

This session will present key steps in forming relationships with community members, elected officials, formal and informal arts organizations, and artists. It will provide guidance on building networks in order to accumulate information, skills for developing a strategy for moving projects forward, and how the resulting aggregated knowledge can be effectively shared. More information here.

Wednesday, 2.17.16Melissa Chiu12:30 - 1:30 PM, Brown 320Sponsored by the Art History, Theory, and Criticism Department​Melissa Chiu, who became the director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC in 2014, will discuss the changing landscape of museums, focusing specifically on the effects of globalization and new technology. She will also briefly discuss her own personal background and experiences working with museums in Asia and around the world. Larry Busbea​5:00 PM, Lazarus AuditoriumSponsored by the MA in Critical Studies

Elissa Auther6:00 PM, Lazarus AuditoriumSponsored by the Fiber Department and the American Craft Council

Author of the acclaimed book String, Felt, Thread and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art, curator and scholar Elissa Auther, PhD will speak on her scholarship surrounding queerness, craft, and bad object choices in the history of modern and contemporary art.

Lee is a diversity speaker and trainer on a variety of issues, including cross cultural communication, identity development, prejudice reduction and coalition building, gender and sexuality diversity, facilitation skills, bullying in schools, and gender bias in the classroom.

Eric Gunther was born in New York in 1978. He studied Computer Science at MIT. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a founding partner of the art and technology firm, Sosolimited. Eric makes music and an occasional music video, among them a time-warping dance video for OK Go. During after hours, Eric dances like an alien robot squid, makes vibrating sculptures, and meditates on nothingness.

Jackie Littman works as a designer for Sosolimited, an art and technology studio that specializes in interactive environments and multi-sensory design. She designs for media at any scale, from bite-sized mobile apps to complex touch-screen walls to massive architectural lighting installations. She is the creator of The Little Bug, an award-winning interactive storybook app which received recognition from USA Today as a top 10 kids app of 2014. Jackie studied design for the theatre at the University of Maryland and received her MFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She now resides in Boston.

OPPORTUNITIES/OTHER NEWS

Volunteers Needed for The Monument Quilt installation on North Avenue, April 9, 20164.9.16, North Avenue at Howard StreetContact:UpsettingRapeCulture@gmail.com, 336-404-0959Sign-up sheet HEREThe Monument Quilt is an on-going collection of stories from survivors of sexual and domestic violence. It is designed to build a new culture where survivors are publicly supported, rather than publicly shamed. Written, stitched, and painted onto red fabric, our stories literally blanket city and town centers to create and demand public space to heal. The Monument Quilt tells the stories of many survivors, not just one.

Volunteers are needed for the largest display of the Monument Quilt to date, as more than 1,000 survivor’s stories blanket North Avenue. Become involved in this national public art project by giving your time in April 9th. Volunteer roles include helping to set up and break down the quilt, helping people to create their own quilt square and handing out information about the project during the display. Volunteers can sign up for these jobs by filling out this google form; a coordinator will be in touch with further instruction as the event approaches.

"Co-Lab(oration): The Way Out House", featuring Laure Drogoul, MICA facultyOpening Reception: Friday, 2.12.16, 6:00 - 9:00 PMAn exploration of toilet culture and digestion, The Way Out House is a transporting sanctuary of banal ritual. The two artists together have collaborated to transformed the space of a typical public lavatory into a psychedelic powder chamber evoking the cyclical systems of both nature… and the Call of Nature.

SUMMA3D Animation ContestDeadline: 6.15.16There’s no entry fee (just register and submit the material). The categories include:· Best VFX in cinema advertising· 3D short-film project· Finished 3D short-film· Character designVisit the website to learn more or register online now here.